'Whozntown' Alerts Restaurants Of Events That Will Bring More Customers

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The Cartersville-Bartow County Convention & Visitors Bureau has created “Whozntown,” an advanced notification text system for area restaurants, businesses and individuals needing to know when tourist visitation is expected to be higher than normal. 

Those interested can follow the CVB on Twitter or receive instant text messages to their cell phones to be notified when higher than normal traffic is expected and the event or source generating that traffic.

This summer’s Perfect Game tournament at LakePoint and six other baseball fields throughout Bartow County “has generated unexpected business at some local restaurants and caught several understaffed,” the CVB said in its press release.

“While there are no guarantees as to where groups might choose to dine, it might help restaurant managers to have a heads-up that events are coming up which might bring them unexpected customers,” Executive Director Ellen Archer added. “And, as a destination, it helps us to be a community that is truly visitor-ready.”

Archer added that the CVB learned earlier this year that local restaurants had been caught off guard by incoming and outgoing traffic generated by the Counterpoint Music Festival and “realized then that a communication network with area restaurants in particular must be established,” the CVB stated.

In addition to Perfect Games baseball, play at Rally Volleyball, events at Terminus Wake Park, upcoming soccer tournaments, gymnastics meets or other events likely to generate higher than normal visitation will be broadcast by the CVB via the Whozntown text or Twitter.

Notifications are free and available by texting ‘whozntown’ to 88202, and/or by following the Cartersville-Bartow County CVB on Twitter. Tweets sent by the CVB will utilize the hashtag #whozntown for easy archive retrieval.

The CVB offers this service for informational purposes only and “makes no claim that any business in Bartow County will receive additional customers from the events broadcasted,” the agency added.

For questions or more information, contact the CVB at 770-387-1357.